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208 thoughts on “Shakedown”
An Average Loser
And what a shakedown it’ll be. . .
Jen Aside
EVERYONE’S A DICK (bandit)
LeslieBean4Shizzle
Ah – the Orient Express solution – everyone drew one dick in permanent marker on someone’s door – each person on the floor is only responsible for one dick each, which is why they all look different.
RAZ
This is what i thought too, due to one of them is similar to the one Sarah drew. the question is, did somebody switch all the markers to permanent markers?
Rowen Morland
Maybe Mike drew one and then left the permanent marker sitting in the hallway, then one by one people decided to draw one like that old broken windows theory.
Doesn’t explain why they are all pointing the same way though.
Deanatay
Magnetism. Whiteboard Dingdong Magnetism.
Mo
Well, Willis always says he can only quickly draw his characters facing one dirOH MY GOD
xKiv
Willis is a fan of one direction?
Jen Aside
no, all his characters face them
BlackIo
“Agatha’s roommate is a notorious bongowad” – did Willis finally give up on trying to keep Guns out of DoA?
Plasma Mongoose
I don’t even remember who Agatha’s roommate even is.
Catullus
It is a mystery.
Plasma Mongoose
So the plot thickens…
Opus the Poet
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Or donate $X and you can be (in comic) Agatha’s roomie. (Female only unless you want the be re-gendered in-comic)
Plasma Mongoose
And who wouldn’t want to be genderbent in a comic as long as your avatar looks good as a result? :3
HeySo
I wonder what the university’s policy on transgender room placement is?
Y’know, for those of us that don’t need any extra gender-bending.
zaratustra
Carla’s got the hall’s second single room next to Ruth’s, according to David.
Jason
I wonder if it’s Raidah or one of her friends.
I would have guessed Malaya, but I thought Willis said Malaya lives in a different dorm.
JessWitt
Maybe Agatha’s roommate is Alex. I thought for sure Agatha lived in her own room.
JessWitt
*Edit: Alice, not Alex.
David M Willis
Alice is definitely not Agatha’s roommate.
Jason
Who’s Alice?
David M Willis
Alex is a dude!
HeySo
Sure.
..Now.
Gigafreak
He is also a teacher rather than a student, so there’s that too.
slicey
no hes a teachers assistant usually means hes a grad student. he still may be living on campus in that situation
David M Willis
Alex is not a teachers assistant.
Maveric1984
And now Jacob is realizing he nearly stuck his weenus in crazy
Yotomoe
Always stick your weenus in crazy.
An Average Loser
Crazy might just draw your weenus next. . .
Plasma Mongoose
Never stick your dick into crazy-glue.
Maveric1984
Actually, I think the saying reccommends that you don’t do that.
Yotomoe
That saying is spread by people who want all the crazy to stick their weenus in for themselves.
Ancestral Hamster
And another aphorism, “Some men learn by reading, some men learn by watching others, and some men have to piss on the electric fence for themselves.”
Good luck with sticking your weenus into crazy, Yotomoe.
Karfsma778
Oh, good. I’m not the only one who knows that saying.
Ancestral Hamster
There’s a similar expression that runs like this (although I can’t remember the man’s name … It’s a stereotypical name from the American Old West.).
“Never eat at a place called Ma’s. Never play cards with a man named [Insert Name Here]. Never sleep with a woman with more problems than you.”
Bill
From a novel called “A Walk on the Wild Side” (1956), by Nelson Algren:
“Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.”
Ancestral Hamster
Thank you, Bill, both for the attribution and the correction.
Swerve
On The Lost Light we have an old saying: “Never play cards with Whirl, never drink engex at a Quintesson diner, and never serve under a captain with more disciplinary files than you.”
Okay, it’s not an old saying, and it was coined by someone who voted against Rodimus, but the part about Whirl? Absolutely true. Seriously, don’t play cards with him; the claws on the ends of his arms aren’t designed to hold small objects, so he just gets frustrated and starts shooting things.
begbert2
You know, if I just had ungainly pincer-claws instead of hands (and not even three-fingered ones, but just the two-pronged ones) I’d probably be murderously pissed off all the time myself.
Rowen Morland
Only one of those groups has a chance of getting super powers.
chris73
Thats not always a bad thing
Maveric1984
There’s a difference between overattached and crazy.
Opus the Poet
You type that like it is a bad thing or something.
AgentKeen
I… was under the impression Jacob wasn’t really thinking that?
Philip Marlowe
Yeah, I don’t remember Jacob expressing that much interest in Sarah beyond friendship. He’s said he’s more looking for a relationship than casual sex.
Doom Shepherd
That’s not crazy, that’s a perfectly rational analysis as performed by an asocial person. She even pointed the finger AWAY from Carla.
Also.. the whole floor, 11 people? Small dorm.
begbert2
I suspect that Amazi-girl is extrapolating based on the trend being presented.
Animal
Have you ever had crazy sex? It’s AWESOME.
Plasma Mongoose
Not helping Sarah…
Bat-Rat
Wait, hold the phone. Joe plays bass violon?
Opus the Poet
Where the &$)) did you get that?!?
Bat-Rat
http://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2011-02-03-divorce.png
Opus the Poet
Wouldn’t that be more appropriate in that page? or on any page with Joe actually on it?
Emperor Kiva
Helluva list
alex
jacobs all like “damn, this girl is crazy”
nekobawt
that or “does this girl have anything to say, about anyone, that isn’t talking shit?”
Plasma Mongoose
Sarah’s not exactly exposing Jacob to her better nature, that’s for certain.
Deanatay
Not sure she has a better nature to expose him to…
Wait, no, we’ve seen ‘big sis’, so, she does. It’s well-concealed, though.
fogel
Sarah talks negatively/cynically but she acts positively–the opposite of people who talk as if they’re your friend to your face then stab you in the back. Sarah may be prickly to your face, but she’s someone you could trust with your back (if you aren’t doing wrong).
Disloyal Subject
The problem being that your average random two people will have differing concepts of right and wrong.
But yeah, she’s alright. Reminds me a little of Capt. Malcolm Reynolds in that she’s a grump who seems to always, if often reluctantly, attempt the right thing.
Gigafreak
…Wasn’t Sarah’s friendship with Jacob based entirely on “let’s talk shit about Joyce” up until just a few minutes ago? She never really DID expose a good side to him until then.
Jen Aside
I think she’s like an internet troll: putting down everything is easy, but actually forming a constructive argument about something that someone else might belittle is hard
Zhecht
So I just started reading DoA and think I’m finally caught up. I tried to put together an org chart of how the main characters are related. Is this about right?
http://i.imgur.com/zZdJAwE.jpg
Plasma Mongoose
Very handy dandy diagram you got there.
Carriethedragon
Wow, someone actually shares my ridiculous need to draw diagrams of character relationships? Looks good to me. The extra arrows on Mike and Joe are a nice touch.
Thores
Very nice! I’d say that Sarah likes Dorothy though (as evidenced in this strip). Maybe Dina too (though I’ll admit at its current stage is mostly friendshipping on my end.)
Zhecht
For the sake of not having too many lines, I just assumed that roommates were friends unless indicated otherwise.
begbert2
But Sarah isn’t Dorothy’s roommate…
timemonkey
No, but Sarah has stated repeatedly to like her.
Catullus
Nice touch adding in the classes! I was actually planning to make such a chart myself, but I didn’t think to mention people’s classes in common.
Vibbles
Charrrrtsssss. <3
I'd say Joyce+Billie and Ethan+Danny need blue lines of friendship, though. Joe+Danny, too, despite how terrible Joe is as a friend.
Part of me feels Comp Sci class should get a mention if Gender Studies and Math do, but that's just my… completionist attitude xD Since Amber and Danny are the only named characters we know of there (I think?) I can see why you'd leave it off.
….Chartssssssss.
newllend
Seems legit, but probably would have put a black arrow between Dina and Joyce.